After 1h45 of attempts to make Spotify working once for all via Wine on my Fedora 16 64 bits (whereas it worked perfectly on FC15 … ), I feel I want to share the solution, since none of the one I found on the web was actually working in my case !

Symptoms :

Either you don’t have any sound in dans Spotify

Or you only hear a sort of noise/garbage corresponding, from far and with super-ears, to the music you are actually trying to listen.

The solution is pretty complex, here is the steps I finally went through to get my Spotify via Wine on FC16 x84_64 working (it may exist some others, but these steps worked for me) :

Edit the launch shortcut of Spotify (note : the one below is the shortcut of the « Applications » Fedora menu. If you want to edit the one located on you Desktop, the procedure is the same) :vi ~/.local/share/applications/wine/Programs/Spotify.desktop
Then, change the « EXEC » line by adding « padsp » at the beginning. This gave, for me :

Launch winecfg with the PulseAudio virtual devices to configure it with them : padsp winecfg

Go to « Audio » tab and choose, in the audio devices list, the ones corresponding to the name of those you can find in « System Settings » of Fedora. For me, it was neither « default » nor « system default » but the one which had the name of my sound card (HDA Intel blabla…). Validate.

(Note : It surely won’t solve the problems related to playing « local storage music » because it is a MP3 decoding problem, you can find out more about the « local storage » music problem here : Spotify and local storage music.)